By Elizabeth Enslin on August 29, 2010
It’s that time of year again, when my taste buds give up on peaches and berries and begin longing for crunchy pears and apples. We have a lovely old pear tree above the old homestead on our land. Every year, I wait for the pears to ripen… …and every year, the competition beats me to
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Posted in Homesteading, Sustainable Food, Wildlife Encounters | Tagged bears, fruit, photography, trees, wild |
By Elizabeth Enslin on May 28, 2010
People often ask me what it’s like to live in a yurt. As I wrote in an essay published in The Smoking Poet last Fall, much of the living goes on around the yurt rather than in it. And that’s as it should be with a shelter traditionally used by nomads. Take the shower. There’s
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Posted in Homesteading, Recent, Yurt Living | Tagged beauty, Homesteading, photography, yurts |
By Elizabeth Enslin on September 25, 2009
On our Northeast Oregon property, we have an old house that’s rotting. It has little historic or architectural value, so we’ve been leaning towards tearing it down. Then my nephew, Gerek, found the bat in the closet….
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Posted in Homesteading, Species of the Week, Wildlife Encounters | Tagged nature, photography, wild |
By Elizabeth Enslin on September 15, 2009
My mom made sauerkraut when I was a kid, and it was good. But during the years I lived in Nepal, I discovered a fermented world that went beyond cabbage….
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Posted in Homesteading, Sustainable Food | Tagged food, pickles, Sustainable Gardening |
By Elizabeth Enslin on July 28, 2009
I’d like to keep this a family friendly blog, but what else should I call it? Feces? Excrement? Waste? Poo? They all sound too distant, clinical or childish. It’s so easy to refer to it in euphemisms when clean water washes it far away, into rivers, oceans, or sewage treatment plants. But when you have to figure out how to deal with it yourself, it turns to shit….
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Posted in Homesteading, Sustainability, Yurt Living | Tagged books, off-grid, Sustainability |
By Elizabeth Enslin on July 27, 2009
The dilapidated house is home to many packrats, a frog that lives in the old stove, a few birds, and many wasps. But the phone line goes to the house (and thanks to Jerry’s engineering now goes to the shady side), so that’s where I do my online work. It’s a lovely quarter mile walk from the yurt….
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Posted in Homesteading, Social media, Sustainability, Yurt Living | Tagged blogging, Homesteading
By Elizabeth Enslin on June 24, 2009
Living off-grid in a yurt is mostly wonderful, at least this time of year. I know that spending time in such a beautiful place is a luxury not everyone can afford. So please understand, I’m not complaining….
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Posted in Homesteading, On Blogging, Species of the Week, Yurt Living | Tagged beauty, Homesteading, patience, species |
By Elizabeth Enslin on June 5, 2009
This is part of I and the Bird No. 102 at Birders’ Lounge. While
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Posted in Biodiversity, Homesteading, Seasons and Rituals, Wildlife Encounters, Yurt Living | Tagged nature, wild |
By Elizabeth Enslin on May 26, 2009
Some more photos of our beautiful spring in Flora, Oregon: When I get more internet time, I will fill out the captions on the photos with a bit more information.
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Posted in Biodiversity, Homesteading, Wild Plants | Tagged nature, photography, Sustainable Gardening, wildflowers |
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